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posted by on November 3 at 8:47 AM
posted by news intern Brian Slodysko
Power grab part I: Musharraf imposes emergency rule, surrounds Pakistani Supreme Court with police forces.
Power grab part II, the other Georgia: tens of thousands protest Georgian president’s tinkering with country’s parliament.
Power grab part III: Hugo Chavez for years to come.
Tainted beef: Company recalls one million pounds of potentially E. coli infected ground beef.
Bush does a little dance: Feinstein and Schumer throw their support behind Mukasey.
Iraq’s northern front: al-Maliki says Iraq will rein in Kurdish guerillas.
Seven words you can never say on TV: FCC appeals federal court’s ruling to Supreme Court.
Sailing on: ligtning rod state prison chief resigns.
With all this wonderful news in the world, be sure to do something next week that will actually improve our communites: VOTE YES ON PROP 1 to improve mobility.
Hey you guys: That mayor of NYC, Bloomberg, had a great idea: putting a tax on pollution. Like putting a tax on each automobile's emissions.
All the environmentalists like this idea. Tax pollution.
In Seattle, the biggest contributor to global waarming is transportation.
So......far from taxing pollution you guys want to subsidize it and incentivize it by buildling 150 miles of new highways in Prop. 1.
A gift to car owners!
And after the new lanes fill up in acouple of years, there is no real mobility benefit. Billions in cost, more pollution, more sprawl, no real mobility benefit.
Are you in Seattle not supposed to be green, smart and ethical ??
Aren't you supposed to be aganst pollution, not in favor of it?
Voting to subsidize pollution with billions in new roads in Prop. 1--
Seattle, how could you ?
MM. les Polar Bears:
Seattle is not so green. Even the new conservative French governmentis planning to build roads no more in the future, only rail and trams and transit:
Road-building turns a corner
By Christopher Caldwell
Published: November 2 2007 19:20
“For 30 years, we’ve built a lot of roads and a lot of highways,” Jean-Louis Borloo, the French environment minister, said at the end of a two-day summit last week. “That’s over. Our road capacity is not going to increase further.” ....
“We are the first generation in the history of humanity,” President Nicolas Sarkozy grimly warned, “whose mission is to rescue the generation to come.”
The summit was the culmination of weeks of discussions between government, green quangos, trades unions, employers and farmers. ...
Plans include new high-speed rail lines, a halt to airport construction and the laying out of 1,500km of tramways in 30 cities.
@2: At first I thought you were just an annoying fuck who threw tantrums about 'global warming' to distract people from the real issues about Prop. 1. But now I realize that you're a spammer, and astroturfing on Slog is the best way you've got to get your asinine message out.
Fuck. Off. Already.
Actually Iraq will rein in Kurdish guerillas.
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